---
title: Website Reader
---

The **Website Reader** crawls and processes entire websites, following links to create comprehensive knowledge bases from web content.

## Code

```python examples/concepts/knowledge/readers/web_reader.py
from agno.knowledge.reader.website_reader import WebsiteReader

reader = WebsiteReader(max_depth=3, max_links=10)

try:
    print("Starting read...")
    documents = reader.read("https://docs.agno.com/introduction")
    if documents:
        for doc in documents:
            print(doc.name)
            print(doc.content)
            print(f"Content length: {len(doc.content)}")
            print("-" * 80)
    else:
        print("No documents were returned")

except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error type: {type(e)}")
    print(f"Error occurred: {str(e)}")
```

## Usage

<Steps>
  <Snippet file="create-venv-step.mdx" />

  <Step title="Install libraries">
    ```bash
    pip install -U requests beautifulsoup4 agno openai
    ```
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set environment variables">
    ```bash
    export OPENAI_API_KEY=xxx
    ```
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run Agent">
    <CodeGroup>
    ```bash Mac
    python examples/concepts/knowledge/readers/web_reader.py
    ```

    ```bash Windows
    python examples/concepts/knowledge/readers/web_reader.py
    ```
    </CodeGroup>
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Params

<Snippet file="website-reader-reference.mdx" /> 
 